German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Kreuz
Meaning in English: cross; lower back
Example
Mach bitte ein Kreuz bei der richtigen Antwort.
Please put a cross next to the right answer.
Der, die or das?
Kreuz is neuter: das Kreuz. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kreuz?
Kreuz is number 2,831 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 31 times per million words — about once every 32,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,827betreibtruns, operates
- 2,828der Kaffeecoffee
- 2,829steigernincrease, boost
- 2,830selbstständigindependent; self-employed
- 2,831das Kreuzcross; lower back
- 2,832die Motivationmotivation
- 2,833die Bilanzbalance sheet; outcome, record
- 2,834der Gastgeberhost
- 2,835das Fahrradbicycle
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,831
- The most common German nouns#1,186
- German B1 vocabulary#908
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#142
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